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finn appreciation week day 3 – favorite relationship: finn & rey

For what felt like the millionth time in a row, Finn dropped the floating rock, Luke Skywalker looking over at him with a light chuckle. Rey was swiping blindly with a stick and pretending it was a saber in the corner, focused and intent. Finn watched her with a sigh, a soft smile tugging the corners of his lips before Master Skywalker’s hand came snapping in his face.

“Don’t fret, Finn, you should’ve seen me when I was first learning,” Luke said warmly, extending a hand to help the younger man to his feet. Finn brushed his pants off with a sigh, his gaze still riveted towards Rey.

“How is she so good, Master Skywalker? She’s learning just as much as I am.”

Luke smirked, “Oh she’s not as good as she wants you to think.” With a wink, he extended his hand and picked up the rock Finn had been practicing with. He watched with fascination as it levitated into the air only to go flying towards Rey’s shoulder. The firm stone connected sharply with the woman’s shoulder and she let out a yelp of surprise before tumbling forward, her stick-saber flying out of her hand.

Finn walked over, slightly guilty yet still holding in a chuckle at the disgruntled look on Rey’s face. He watched as Rey slowly sat up, clumps of dirt stuck to her face and in her hair. Hazel eyes shot up towards Finn before Rey just began to laugh, her cheeks flaring up with brief embarrassment.

“Did you encourage him to do that?” Rey asked, watching as Finn tried his best to look innocent.

“Of course not, it was a Jedi test,” Finn teased, watching as Rey got to her feet with an even more playful look on her face.

“Alright then, let’s spar. See what you got.” Rey used the Force to call her stick back to her, her eyebrow raising in challenge. Finn looked over to Luke who just nodded them along with a warm smile.

“You’re going down desert girl,” Finn said with a laugh, calling his own stick towards him. The island was full of them after all, and it always made easy practice for Luke Skywalker’s best students.

The both of them got into their preferred fighting stances, immersing themselves deep into training mode and allowing the Force to blanket them.

In seconds, Rey already had the first move, Finn easily sidestepping to evade it only to whirl back around, his intentions set on Rey’s exposed back. Rey ducked just in time however, spinning outwards in an attempt to take Finn’s legs out from under him.

Finn jumped up in a flip and slashed out towards her neck, the stick slamming hard against the other stick as Rey reached up to block.

Their motion was fluid, the perfect pair, as not one could get a strike in on the other. They had trained together for a long time, and each time they sparred together, they grew more and more in sync with each other’s fighting styles.

The Force hummed through both of their veins’, pushing them further and further and allowing them to power through without breaking a sweat. Luke continued to look on, impressed.

However, after a good few minutes, Finn finally found a flaw in Rey’s form. Smirking and shielding his thoughts so Rey couldn’t sense his plan through their bond, he ducked under her stick, jumped over her swung out leg and whirled just in time to pierce through her defenses and press his stick into her abdomen. Rey looked down with wide eyes before she laughed once more.

“I guess you have been practicing.”

“You know it,” Finn said with a chuckle, pulling back and giving the customary end-of-spar bow, in which Rey quickly followed suit.

A sudden sound startled the both of them to look up and see Luke clapping, his eyes crinkled in amusement and making him look much younger than his years. “That was quite a battle, Padawans, I’m proud of both of you.”

“Thank you Master,” Finn and Rey said in unison, playfully nudging each other in the ribs despite Luke watching them with an amused shake of his head.

“I think that’s all the training you two require for the day. You should get some rest.”

Finn and Rey nodded and bowed once more to Luke before turning away and darting down the stone stairs, eager to go explore more of the island.

They held hands the whole way down, Luke pretending he didn’t notice as he turned away to tend to his duties.

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